Darkstalkers 4 ~ What do we know so far?

[Arachnofiend]

I’m not a fan of Sasquatch’s design but Victor is pretty awesome.

Honestly I think Sasquatch is the one Darkstalkers character I like less than Morrigan

And I don’t hate any of them???

[SaikoJosh]

We know that it doesn’t currently exist

We know that Capcom will rush it out and it will be complete garbage

We know that it’ll be a black stain on an otherwise great series

We know that it won’t live up to our hopes by any stretch of the imagination.

[Genistar]

I hope they add 4-6 new characters and make sure the roster is fairly balanced. Hopefully they’ll make the graphics look dark and not very goofy looking like SFxT

[Essay]

Just as long as they don’t cut the existing roster short. The lack of a cuddly aztec robot and Buddhist vampire hunter from vanilla VSav peturbs me endlessly.

[Hol_Horse]

Honestly I hope the keep the roster relatively small.
I’d take 20 deep, very differentiated characters over a 40+ cast any day.
Plus, you can actually learn every matchup properly with a reduced roster. Look at Sf4, after years unfamiliar matchups still influence the outcome of tournaments.

[craze]

i want this.

man i really want to get excited man…

…capcom will screw it up

makes me sad.

[Will_Diesel]

I wanna get hype bro, i really do. But, modern capcom is just gonna find SOME WAY to mess it it up.
As for characters, we don’t have an alien yet. That’d be pretty cool.

Pretty sure the Alien is Pyron. Which is a way better rep than anything like Mars People.

[Will_Diesel]

We know jack about DS4 until Capcom shows pictures of an alpha or beta build of the rumored game.
It’s going to be graphically like SF4 so we can all forget about the fantasies of hand-drawn graphics. Arc System is the last Japanese developer that does 2-D artwork for fighting games regularly.

I like Skullgirls but I seriously doubt a new DS game will be anything like it as much as I’d hope otherwise. Skullgirls is a spiritual descendant of the Darkstalkers series whether most people have realized it or not.
I saw it right away!

In which way is SG similar to DS?

Well last time I checked Morrigan was one of the main characters, I’m sick of people always bashing Morrigan just because of her popularity Capcom learned Darkstalkers is just as much as Morrigan’s territory as it is Demitri’s, they tried games without her and they sucked .

She’s the Ken of the series so she would undoubtedly be bashed, however like Ken there could have been 2 or 3 crossovers that wouldn’t havd suffered without her there. She couldn’t even get a redrawn sprite since forever.

[Arachnofiend]

SG’s art style is heavily influenced by Darkstalkers. As far as gameplay goes? No, not really. SG is as close to DS as Marvel is (which is “closer than Street Fighter I guess”). Mike Z never even really got into Darkstalkers, he said in an early interview that he fiddled around with Hsien-Ko a bit and liked the game but he never invested enough time to get good at it.

[CrystalCore]

We need a new hype train, fellers.

Let’s construct the rr tracks for the train, shall we?

1) We know that it runs on a modified version of the SFxTK engine.

2) We know what 3 of the cast looks like in 3D, thanks to Marvel. We know that art style is not dictated by existing 3D assets ((one benefit over 2D sprites) models can be reused and rendered in different engines different ways).

3) We were told that Ono was in charge, but, the poor guy is worn out. So, who is heading it now, and how might that effect things?

4) We know that the series hasn’t had a chance to expand in 14 years, and that the original cast is what? 22 or so? There’s:
[LIST]
[]Baby Bonnie Hood*
[]Demitri*
[]Jon Talbain*
[]Lord Raptor*
[]Morrigan*
[]Anakaris*
[]Felicia*
[]Bishamon*
[]Rikuo*
[]Sasquatch*
[]Huitzil*
[]Jedah*
[]Pyron*
[]Donovan*
[]Lilith*
[]Q-Bee*
[]Victor*
[/LIST]
[LIST]
[]Dark Talbain (Gallon)*
[]Dee (Evil Donovan)* - (Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection only)
[]Oboro Bishamon*
[]Shadow*
[]***Marionette - ****(Vampire Savior 2 & Vampire Hunter 2)
[/LIST]
So, there should be at least 12 new characters.

Now, I have not followed much of the anime, comics, or do not know of any concept sketches from 1997 (jeez, that’s a while ago!) that might not have made it in, so who the hell will be added?

A) Darkstalkers is a play on classic movie monsters. For example, Rikuo is a play on “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.” So, what gaps are missing? Well, there is no “blob” representative. There is no “gremlin” rep, nor anything close to a classic Grey Alien or something like Mars Thing from SNK. There is nothing Lovecraftian. There’s nothing representing popular cryptids, like, “El Chupacabra!” There are no dinosaurs. There are no fungussy fighters or plants.

B) There are plenty of monstrous orphaned characters from other fighters who might fit (not that I’m saying they SHOULD be in, just that they could conceivably be brought back): There’s Amingo (hey, a plant guy!), Ruby Heart (ghosts and all that) and even Son Son (turns into King Kong). Firebrand and Arthur would be welcome by me. There’s a bunch of characters from Red Earth (go Tessa!).

Care to speculate?

That kid who always follows Donovan, Anita, should be playable, too. I imagine someone here already suggested that, though.

[jedpossum]

She was one of the characters that didn’t get into Savior. She had a complete design too.

[SesshaZL]

have any of you guys ever played VS?

there is no way capcom can make another game in this series that will be anywhere near as good or fun as it is.
especially seeing the kind of fighters they’ve released over the last few years. why would you want this crap?
ugly ass models, with slow play and huge ass stages that are a mile wide.

[Optimus_Cack]

Honestly I would prefer an “HD Remix” iteration of Vampire Savior. Fd You don’t need to change a whole lot to the game, just make the tech hits more like the Skullgirls push block in terms of both input and rules and some odd things here or there for the tippy-top characters. Vampire Savior was not perfect by any means, but it was pretty damned good.

My terribly unlikely dream: add DMC3 Dante to an “HD Remix” Vampire Savior. With the proper art style embelishments, I think he’d fit well as a character with the rest of the cast. He couldn’t work as the MvC3 Dante. He’d have to be reworked: drastically cut down on the number of specials he has (get rid of some odd trouble ones for this style of game and make some of them exist only as EX moves), no bold cancels, and change around his normals (that mvc3 light attack cannot exist as a jab/short in VS; also Stinger should not be cancelable at all).